1711.04
Premiums.

Every society formed under sections
1711.01 and
1711.02 of the Revised Code shall
annually offer and award premiums for the improvement of grains, fruit,
vegetables, livestock, articles of domestic industry, public school displays,
and such other articles, productions, and improvements as it deems proper, and
may perform any acts best calculated to promote the agricultural interests and
household manufacturing interests of the counties concerned and of the state.
It shall regulate the amount of premiums, and their different grades, so that
all may have an opportunity to compete for them.

Persons offering to compete for premiums on improved methods of
production of crops or other articles shall, before such a premium is adjudged,
deliver to the awarding committee, if required to do so by such committee, a
full and correct statement of the process, expense, and value of the method of
production, with a view to showing accurately the profits derived or expected
to be derived therefrom.